Cancer center receives $25 million donation from late CEO’s family

Gift is the largest in is in the history of the Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 9:54 a.m. October 1, 2020
Courtesy. The eight-story oncology tower is scheduled to open in the fall 2021.
Courtesy. The eight-story oncology tower is scheduled to open in the fall 2021.
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SARASOTA — The family foundation of Brian Jellison, who helped build east Manatee County-based Roper Technologies into a $5.37 billon software conglomerate, has donated $25 million to go toward the Sarasota Memorial Hospital Cancer Institute.  

 

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